Texas Teenager Takes Monster 23-point Buck, Sets a Youth Record

Last month 15-year-old Makayla Hay harvested this record-breaking buck in Madison County, Tex. Most other local hunters had hoped to tag the buck themselves, but Makayla took this gnarly bruiser minutes before sunrise on opening day.

The buck scored more than 200 inches and should become the second largest ever taken in the county. The Hay buck is also slated to join the Texas Big Game Awards as the largest free-range whitetail ever harvested by a youth in Texas.

About a month before the season opener a pair of fisherman snapped this photo of two bucks swimming in the Trinity River. Makayla’s father, Jim Hay, thought the buck might show up on the 1,600-acre lease they hunt.